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Opinion | Is ‘Peak Woke’ Behind Us or Ahead?
  + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The attempts to use “woke capital” to effect progressive change have met strong resistance, and corporations are losing enthusiasm for a vanguard role. Meanwhile, there is more intellectual and political energy in anti-wokeness now, evident not just in backlash in red states but in this autumn’s roster of new books, which includes critiques of social justice ideology from the socialist left, the center left and the right. The Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action has created new legal roadblocks for Kendi-style progressivism. The mood in elite journalism is less ideologically committed and more skeptical and critical. These exemplify a different aftermath for “peak woke” — not the ideology’s retreat, but its consolidation and entrenchment.
Persons: Trump, Jack Dorsey, , , , Michael Powell’s, ” — Organizations: Antiracist Research, Boston University
The 2020 campaign to restore race-conscious affirmative action in California was close to gospel within the Democratic Party. It drew support from the governor, senators, state legislative leaders and a who’s who of business, nonprofit and labor elites, Black, Latino, white and Asian. Supporters raised many millions of dollars for the referendum and outspent opponents by 19 to 1. None of these efforts persuaded Jimmie Romero, a 63-year-old barber who grew up in the working-class Latino neighborhood of Wilmington in Los Angeles. Affirmative action was not one of those.
Persons: Kamala Harris, , Jimmie Romero, Mr, Romero Organizations: Democratic Party, Golden State Warriors, San Francisco Giants, 49ers, Oakland Athletics, American Civil Liberties Union of, Homelessness Locations: California, U.S, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Wilmington, Los Angeles
When the Culture Wars Came for NASA
  + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Michael Barbaro | Will Reid | Mooj Zadie | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever made, has revolutionized the way we see the universe. The name was chosen for James E. Webb, a NASA administrator during the 1960s. But when doubts about his background emerged, the telescope’s name turned into a fight over homophobia. Michael Powell, a national reporter for The Times, tells the story of Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, an astrophysicist whose quest to end the controversy with indisputable facts only made it worse.
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